Fake Slackers

Ethan Vance, the legendary warrior, was stabbed in the back by his closest ally at the peak of the final dungeon raid. Instead of death, he wakes up as a seventeen-year-old disgraced noble and magic-academy dropout in a parallel world, one destined to face the exact same apocalypse in just five years. Worse, the twelve traitors who sold out his past life are already here, masquerading as elite teenage prodigies. Armed with max-level combat instincts and a fake ‘Berserker Awakening’ cover story that gives him a license for total chaos, Ethan isn't playing the savior this time. He's going to hunt the traitors, bleed the dungeons dry, and speedrun his way back to godhood. They expected a magic-less reject. They got an apocalypse-level threat.

Derek Moss finds his wife cheating, leaves her, then runs into a wildfire as a firefighter. While saving two people from a burning building, he rescues an old man who turns out to be Jacob West, a billionaire and Derek’s real father. Derek was kidnapped as a toddler 23 years ago. Suddenly Derek has a rich family, but his coworkers try to ruin his firefighter career with fake reports. Derek fights back with proof and his new family’s help. The coworkers get suspended. Now Derek learns who kidnapped him, cuts ties with his ex-wife, and starts to meet his real dad Jacob. He’s caught between his old life and his new one. Can he ever survive this?

Ethan did everything right. He trained hard, followed the rules, and wanted to protect his kingdom. But during the grand magic ceremony, his magic woke up black instead of gold. Branded as a monster, he is crippled by the high priest and thrown into the bottomless maw, a dark pit where monsters live. Instead of dying, Ethan awakens a forbidden video-game system called The Sinner's Banquet. It lets him steal the levels and skills of the monsters and evil people he defeats. To get revenge and save his sister, Ethan takes a fake identity and goes back to the surface. But the higher he climbs, the more he realizes the world is a lie, his enemies are closer than he thinks, and his own magical system is hiding a massive secret.

Rapheal lost everything. His identity, title and status when the real heir return and he is proven to be a fake. Switched during birth. Yet the Devereux family refused to let him go. They forcefully married him to his fake younger sister to retrieve his inheritance. Humiliating him at all turn. His face was ruined during a company riot when someone poured acid on him and the family's tax evasion was pinned on him. Raphael was sent to prison where he died. He wakes up two years before with a system that helps him secretly build wealth, while he hid his true capabilities. Then a old man appears with a gold credit card claiming to be his real family.

When the nation’s most mysterious trillionaire, Chris Alphonso, accidentally becomes entangled in the chaotic world of Deborah Lewis, the iron-willed daughter of a billionaire, neither realizes how a mistaken Uber ride will unravel the lives of two powerful families. Deborah is desperate her father’s empire will only be hers if she marries a man of equal fortune. Chris, living incognito beneath the radar of the elite, accepts a contract marriage proposal that should have been a simple façade. But secrets have gravity. As their fake union deepens, they’re pulled into a dangerous web of corporate espionage, family betrayal, and a love neither saw coming. In a world where appearances rule and loyalty is currency, two hearts must decide what’s worth more power, truth, or each other.

In his past life, Lucian Vance bled for fake friends and a manipulative lover, only to end up with a blade driven into his heart. Now, he’s regressed to Day One of the global apocalypse—armed with the SSS-Rank Empire Builder System and a heart of absolute stone. No more mercy. No more playing the tragic hero. With a forty-eight-hour countdown ticking in the crimson sky and a tyrannical Necromancer marching to claim the city, Lucian must conquer the ruins from the ground up. By his side stand the world’s most elite, fiercely loyal women—warriors and geniuses who would gladly watch the world burn for him. His traitorous family wants his fortress., a god of death wants his head. But Lucian is about to teach them all a lesson: In this life, the Sovereign bows to no one.

No. 3 🥉 [AN INTRIGUE READ] In Meganovel ["Leap To The Top"] contest Victor has lived his life as a hard-working person as a trial from his father. He is actually a graduate from a respectable university, but he is only a pizza delivery man for living. Victor has prepared a ring as a gift for his wife for their wedding anniversary. But the wife throws it away, accusing it for a fake jewelry. She even shows off the $5,000 necklace that she just got from a rich man who she had just spent dinner with in a luxurious restaurant. The wife asks a divorce, for having enough living in a pathetic life with a loser husband like him. One thing that she doesn't know, the gift she just denied is a 1 Million dollars ring, and that Victor is the only son of some wealthy family.

Behind his status as the school’s top genius, Bagas is one random glitch away from total social ruin. When the merciless Skill Shuffle System suddenly hijacks his brain, his high-IQ intellect vanishes overnight, swapped for elite oil painting skills. As the System continuously shuffles his abilities without warning—transforming him from an irresistible heartthrob into an uncoordinated disaster within hours—Bagas has to fake his way through the day. The problem? His eagle-eyed teacher is already smelling a rat, and Siska, the sharpest girl in class, is actively tracking his bizarre mood swings. Now, with final exams looming and his academic brain completely offline, Bagas must somehow hack the System using a collection of utterly useless talents. Can he pull off the ultimate bluff, or will his next forced skill swap expose his double life to the entire campus?

Mason's life takes a sharp turn when he's falsely accused by his boss's spoiled daughter, leaving him with nowhere to run. But just when things couldn't get worse, his world is flipped upside down again—he’s sold to Olivia, a powerful heiress, who buys him to play the role of her fake fiancé in exchange for his freedom. It doesn't end there as a new figure emerges with the claim that Mason is actually the long lost heir to the Steele dynasty. Thrown into a world of wealth and manipulation, Mason struggles to navigate the new dangers and allure of his new life. As tensions rise and their staged romance blurs into something real, Mason finds himself torn between duty and desire. But as secrets unravel and the past refuses to stay buried, can Mason trust Olivia with more than just his heart? His life is no longer his own—and neither is his heart.

For two years, Lorenzo Lancaster played the penniless student for the woman he thought saved his life, secretly elevating Chloe Hawthorne to the heights of her family empire. But greed has a short memory. When Chloe dumps him at city hall for a fake billionaire heir, she unwittingly cuts her own safety net. Stripped of his illusion, Lorenzo discovers his true childhood savior was Roxana Vance—Chloe’s abused cousin, who is currently being sold off to a monster. Kicking down the doors of high society, Lorenzo reclaims his throne as the head of The Lancaster Group, rescues Roxana, and initiates a takedown of everyone who crossed them. But in a world ruled by corporate vultures and dark family secrets, holding the crown means surviving the betrayals—even if it costs them the very love they fought to reclaim. Would Lorenzo follow the dark path of rich socialites, or would he fight to reclaim the love of his life?